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How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation

DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why should anyone care?

TinyDesk:  Chance the Rapper - including bc it's 🔥 🔥 🔥 

Tesla’s First Mass-Market Car, the Model 3, Hits Production This Week

All New Volvo Models Will Be Electric Or Hybrid Starting In 2019
Also, Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos

Daimler, BAIC to invest $735 million in electric vehicles in China

Open source isn’t just altruistic - it’s smart business. TensorFlow has been a win-win for Google and AI overall

Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way

Ask the AI experts: What are the applications of AI?

Technical Debt in Machine Learning 
ICYMI - mentioned in the post, but worth highlighting Gooe great paper from NIPS '15 on the topic from Google. Also

The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else

I can grade you, or I can teach you, but I can’t do both

Microsoft Workplace Analytics

Microsoft creates an AI research lab to challenge Google and DeepMind

Alphabet’s AI arm DeepMind opens research lab in Canada, first outside the U.K.

Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments -- aka DeepMind’s AI is teaching itself parkour, and the results are adorable

NVIDIA, Baidu Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI

Sam Altman on UBI with Fortune

Andrew Ng announces Deeplearning.ai, his new venture after leaving Baidu

No surprises: The key to the founder/VC relationship and avoiding the “Oh shit” board meeting

07.02.17 Recap

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Elon Musk thinks he can make getting to Mars cheaper than going to college

And the Boring Company is in talks with LA

...annnd has apparently started to bore

Lots happening in 🚗  the past few weeks...

Texas explicitly allows driverless car tests

Alphabet Inks Deal for Avis to Manage Self-Driving Car Fleet

Apple Is Working With Hertz to Manage Its Self-Driving Car Fleet

Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision

Tesla’s New AI Guru Could Help Its Cars Teach Themselves

Ford’s on-demand bus service Chariot expands to Seattle

Waymo’s self-driving van hits the desert to see if it can stand the heat

And plenty of other happenings + thoughts...

Hard Questions: How We Counter Terrorism from Facebook

The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy

Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission

MIT CSAIL research offers a fully automated way to peer inside neural nets

Ex Machina’s Scientific Advisor – Murray Shanahan

Bezos's Grocery 'Waterloo' Is Now His Biggest Opportunity

In a few years, no investors are going to be looking for AI startups

Forget AlphaGo—DeepMind Has a More Interesting Step Toward General AI

Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all

Accenture, Microsoft team up on blockchain-based digital ID network

The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed

A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education

You can now sign up for early access to Google’s wacky Area 120 app experiments

How HBO’s Silicon Valley built “Not Hotdog” with mobile TensorFlow, Keras & React Native 🌭

Why Are Corporations So Bad At Working With Startups?

Your Apple Pay purchases can help preserve national parks
Awesome to see Apple step up and help preserve our national treasures 💪

 

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AI Software Learns to Make AI Software by Tom Simonite
So meta.

The Story of My Life by Ivan Rodriguez
Inspirational read from one of my all time favorite players reflecting on his career as he is admitted into the MLB Hall of Fame. Congrats Pudge!!

Four Questions for Geoff Hinton by Bryon Reese and Geoff Hinton

arxivML: An Alexa skill to read latest machine learning papers from arXiv by Amine Ben Khalifa
Alexa and arxivML, a match made in heaven.

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer by Google Brain, et al

Repealing the ACA without a Replacement -- The Risks to American Health Care by Pres. Barack Obama
It's true you never really know what you've got 'til it's gone...

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10.23.16 Recap

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Reid Hoffman at Startup School with Sam Altman by Y Combinator
"Anyone inventing products should be able to articulate a...robust theory of human nature." Always enjoy hearing Reid talk, this being no exception. Great insights and interview with Sam.

Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition by Microsoft Research
Major advances in speech recognition by Microsoft Research -- essentially, as accurate as a human. Here is the research paper, worth the read.

And now, a major appearance by POTUS...

Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence by WhiteHouse.gov
As a follow up from the RFI, the White House posted a report on what they perceive to be the future with AI. Plenty to dig into here, but if you are interesting in more of the policy, check out the National AI Research and Development Strategic Plan.

Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving cars, and the Future of the World 
The president in conversation with MIT's Joi Ito and WIRED's Scott Dadich on how AI will shape the future.

Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List for You by Jason Tanz
President Obama outlines imperatives for the Silicon Valley and industry leaders respond...

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